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Mar 25, 2026, 6:07 AM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup–Yet More Qualifiers

Currently, there are forty-two nations that have qualified for this summer's FIFA World Cup. One might think that forty-two nations would be sufficient to determine the king of the world's most popular sport–all the more so as a thirty-two...

Mar 24, 2026, 5:54 PM

A Test of Football’s Conscience: FIFA’s Iran Dilema

There are moments when sport collides so completely with politics and morality that pretending otherwise becomes untenable. FIFA, for decades, has insisted on its neutrality - a governing body above geopolitics, guided only by the principles of the game....

Mar 10, 2026, 4:12 PM

On Arsenal and Israel

It’s hard to be an Israeli and an Arsenal fan these days. Them lot up the road are seen as the “Jewish” club, but there are many Jewish Arsenal supporters in the UK, and thousands of Israeli Gooners too...

Dec 4, 2025, 7:41 AM

Briefed by the IRGC: Iran’s Strategy to Weaponize Football at the 2026 World Cup

Iran plans to weaponize football against Israel, that much has become clear over the course of the last few days. When a national football federation brings in intelligence and security officials to brief its players on how to act...

Nov 20, 2025, 7:17 AM

UEFA’s Red Card to Israel: A New Low in the Politicisation of Sport

I’ve watched the growing campaign to remove Israel from UEFA with a mix of disbelief and concern. What started as a fringe demand has now found surprising momentum in certain football circles, most prominently the Irish Football Association. And...

Oct 23, 2025, 5:33 AM

The Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup–Commence Loathing

Well, sports fans, we are back again. There have been enough recent developments on the road to the 2026 FIFA World Cup to merit this premature digression into that place of despair and near-universal disdain known as World Cup...

James M. Dorsey

Jan 12, 2025, 8:38 AM

Saudi Arabia and international sports, a tale of politics and greed

Saudi Arabia brings out the worst in the world of international sports in terms of politics and greed. FIFA’s awarding Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup hosting rights is just the tip of the iceberg. The awarding violated the world soccer...

Sep 8, 2024, 9:49 AM

An open letter to FIFA

Hapoel Jerusalem flags on display at the funeral of Hersh Goldberg Polin.
(Photograph taken by the writer.)

Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA Dear Mr. Infantino, Last week I was one of thousands who attended the funeral in Jerusalem of Hersh Goldberg Polin. Hersh was 23 years-old, and kidnapped from a music festival by Hamas after they had blown...

James M. Dorsey

Feb 16, 2024, 5:33 PM

First Qatar, Now Saudi Arabia: Time for Activists to Rethink

The realization that Saudi Arabia is not Qatar may seem obvious, but it has significant meaning for the lessons rights activists and others draw from the Qatar World Cup as they prepare for a Saudi-hosted tournament in 2034. Understanding the...

Dec 19, 2022, 11:56 PM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup–Day 298

Four-and-a-half years ago, the Zionist's Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) wrote the following in its final blog for the 2018 World Cup: "The 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar. Most likely, further indignities await the Zionist fan....

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